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     By: Digital Man to deon on Tue Dec 17 2024 10:57 pm   
      
   Howdy,   
      
    >  > Can you always get the timezone from the OS?   
      
    > Could, yes, but prefer to give the sysop the option to be more specific.   
      
    >  > Why have a configured timezone at all?   
      
    > Explained above.   
      
   OK, fair enough. I guess I dont understand why a sysop would configure their   
   OS timezone different to their BBS timezone.   
      
   If they didnt have access to the OS configuration, then fair enough, but I   
   would have thought that was a pretty rare/remote case - and in that case   
   setting that scfg...Local Time Zone setting could be used to display the times   
   in that timezone they wanted.   
      
    > Your message came here as posted on:   
    > "Wed Dec 18 2024 05:14 pm AEDT (30 minutes ago)"   
      
    > If we only used "what the OS returns", your message would have been posted   
    > on: "Wed Dec 18 2024 05:14 pm +11:00 (30 minutes ago)"   
      
   Personally, I prefer the later. Its pretty absolute, where some folks may not   
   know what AEDT/ACST/ACDT are.   
      
   Anyway, while the OS might just give you the timezone UTC offset, a quick   
   parse of /etc/localtime (on linux and mac at least) would give you the   
   timezone string as well. Dont know if that is at all possible on Win.   
      
   Personally I think that's better than a scenario where the time or time_t   
   value is forced to a timezone that makes the usage of that value untrue.   
      
      
      
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